Martin Karl "Max Martin" Sandberg (born February 26, 1971) is a Grammy-nominated, Swedish pop-dance music producer and songwriter. He was born in Stockholm, Sweden and is best known by his artistic name Max Martin. As a producer and songwriter, he crafted a string of worldwide hits for pop artists like the clean-cut boy bands The Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, Britney Spears, Swedish starlet Robyn and the Swedish eurodance star E-Type among many others, in the mid/late '90s to mid 2000s.
His trademark is a bouncing, piano/synth-heavy pop sound that mixes music styles such as Europop and Italo house with classic American Bandstand pop arrangements. However, with Kelly Clarkson's hits "Since U Been Gone" and "Behind These Hazel Eyes", which propelled Max back into the spotlight in 2004, he had managed to reinvent himself with a fresh pop rock sound.
